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3 Noteworthy Effects Of The 2025 NDAA

Government Contracts

The 2025 defense budget includes further restrictions on semiconductor sales to Huawei, requiring companies to rethink customer-base oversight, but other provisions are likely to broaden procurement contract opportunities, say attorneys at Miles Stockbridge.

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The UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan -- a procurement view

How to Crack a Nut

Coupled with the current budget and expectations of public sector productivity gains, the action plan will put AI adoption top of the agenda for public sector organisations (if it wasnt there already). Procurement contract terms should set standards (e.g. quality), requirements, and best practice (e.g. performance evaluations).

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

This would result in large monetary and transactional savings for governments because, for example, approximately 25% of public contracts in the region require time extensions averaging nearly double their original terms, while around 13% experience budget increases of up to 50%. of GDP, according to FISLAC calculations.

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The Corruption Cost Tracker: Quantifying the costs of corrupt contracting and the savings to be made from reform

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

Corruption in public procurement can lead to: 1) Overpriced public procurement contracts contributing to larger budget deficits. 2) Unfinished, sub-standard delivery or lower than contracted quantity leading to the need for further public expenditure or lost revenue.

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End of Fiscal Year Spending Made Easy With NITAAC

NIH NITAAC

In a nutshell, at the end of the fiscal year, unspent funds expire, and agencies make plans to spend their allocated dollars to exhaust the “use or lose” funds in their budgets. Designed for Efficiency and Speed GWACs were established by the Clinger Cohen Act as a mechanism to streamline the information technology (IT) procurement process.

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End of Fiscal Year Spending Made Easy With NITAAC

NIH NITAAC

In a nutshell, at the end of the fiscal year, unspent funds expire, and agencies make plans to spend their allocated dollars to exhaust the “use or lose” funds in their budgets. Designed for Efficiency and Speed GWACs were established by the Clinger Cohen Act as a mechanism to streamline the information technology (IT) procurement process.

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Contractors find some ‘buying forecasts’ better than others

Federal News Network

I think that’s a good point, the data available actually from the budget side of the house, and from the White House, and OMB and the agencies, as well as from the appropriations committees of what they’re doing. And of course, those were never searchable. Who’s responsible for determining that capability?